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Hey
just wanted to ask you guys of what you think of the ethics of boycotting a company which supports and funds political ideas that are fundamentally different from your own.
Gloria Jeans gave $30000 to the Australian christian lobby a homophobic organisation which denies the rights of gay, lesbian, transsexual peoples and more generally women from having an abortion who have for example been raped. They have an anti-euthanasia position also.
Here are links to the boycotts: https://www.facebook.com/BoycottGloriaJeans ; www.boycottgloriajeans.com
They cite a long history with Mercy Ministries, an organisation which performed exorcisms on lesbians whilst taking their centrelink payments.
They express themselves as such:
The Boycott’s position
Individuals have consumer choice. They can use that choice politically. If Gloria Jean’s chooses, as it rightfully is entitled to, to fund campaigns against LGBT and women’s rights in its own political activism; then we have the same right to use our consumer buying power take our businesselsewhere. Gloria Jean’s chose to be political in where they put their money, so we shall be political where we put our money.
Politics is about power relations. Gloria Jean’s has the power to give money, and that money has power which they gave to ACL to fund anti-human rights causes. We have the power to stop this with our dollars. We decry the financial support of ACL by Gloria Jean’s and hope to change their politics by changing our buying practices. Companies have a social responsibility, and a moral and ethical duty act in accordance with human rights and their associated norms.
We sympathise with franchisees who bought into Gloria Jean’s and may be suffer as a result of the boycott. We call on franchisees to inform the parent company that their suffering is caused by the franchiser’s politics.
We also remind franchisees of the previous scandal involving Gloria Jean’s and Mercy Ministries, which has been well publicised. All franchisees were contractually obliged to display Mercy Ministries’ donation boxes on their counters until 2009. Therefore franchisees gave their assent to the facilitation of those funds. Franchisees cannot claim ignorance; they ought to have employed due diligence. Franchisees should question directives from the parent company.
So what do you guys think?
just wanted to ask you guys of what you think of the ethics of boycotting a company which supports and funds political ideas that are fundamentally different from your own.
Gloria Jeans gave $30000 to the Australian christian lobby a homophobic organisation which denies the rights of gay, lesbian, transsexual peoples and more generally women from having an abortion who have for example been raped. They have an anti-euthanasia position also.
Here are links to the boycotts: https://www.facebook.com/BoycottGloriaJeans ; www.boycottgloriajeans.com
They cite a long history with Mercy Ministries, an organisation which performed exorcisms on lesbians whilst taking their centrelink payments.
They express themselves as such:
The Boycott’s position
Individuals have consumer choice. They can use that choice politically. If Gloria Jean’s chooses, as it rightfully is entitled to, to fund campaigns against LGBT and women’s rights in its own political activism; then we have the same right to use our consumer buying power take our businesselsewhere. Gloria Jean’s chose to be political in where they put their money, so we shall be political where we put our money.
Politics is about power relations. Gloria Jean’s has the power to give money, and that money has power which they gave to ACL to fund anti-human rights causes. We have the power to stop this with our dollars. We decry the financial support of ACL by Gloria Jean’s and hope to change their politics by changing our buying practices. Companies have a social responsibility, and a moral and ethical duty act in accordance with human rights and their associated norms.
We sympathise with franchisees who bought into Gloria Jean’s and may be suffer as a result of the boycott. We call on franchisees to inform the parent company that their suffering is caused by the franchiser’s politics.
We also remind franchisees of the previous scandal involving Gloria Jean’s and Mercy Ministries, which has been well publicised. All franchisees were contractually obliged to display Mercy Ministries’ donation boxes on their counters until 2009. Therefore franchisees gave their assent to the facilitation of those funds. Franchisees cannot claim ignorance; they ought to have employed due diligence. Franchisees should question directives from the parent company.
So what do you guys think?
